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Quotes About Camping

One enjoyable consequence of being in the Scouts was that, at the start of each new school year, we had to camp out in tents on the school playing fields.
~ Michael Portillo
We discovered that often it was better to sleep in a nice familiar tent than to go off and look for a hotel.
~ Charley Boorman
I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
~ Mary Leakey
I conquered my phobia of camping, although I doubt I'll be pitching my tent at a muddy festival any time soon.
~ Fiona Bruce
Hopefully I won't have to sleep with my feet out of the tent.
~ Zdeno Chara
In ultralight backpacking, modified gear pieces come into play, like a tent you hoist with your trekking poles.
~ Jay Duplass
She'd never been any kind of camper, never had been good at relieving a full bladder on a whim. Never had quite figured out that squat; it seemed like she'd always wet her right foot.
~ Robyn Carr
CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that's just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that's a conspiracy.
~ Lois Lowry
spring and enough grass to last the burros for quite some time. After a careful scouting around, he made a fire of dead mesquite, which made almost no smoke, and fixed some coffee. When he had eaten, Dunbar gathered up his pan, pick, shovel, and rifle and moved out. He was
~ Louis L'Amour
Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake. But
~ Louis Sachar
My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.
~ Diane Kruger
The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper. Renée wined. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged .
~ Joe Hill
If he took you camping after he died, my boy, then you would have a story to tell!
~ Joe Hill
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
~ Edward Abbey
The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement - mating season. And lots of fresh rabbit meat hopping about to feed the young ones with.
~ Edward Abbey
Sign written on the inside of the outhouse door at the campground in Arches: "Attention: Watch out for rattlesnakes, coral snakes, whip snakes, vinegaroons, centipedes, millipedes, ticks, mites, black widows, cone-nosed kissing bugs, solpugids, tarantulas, horned toads, Gila monsters, red ants, fire ants, Jerusalem crickets, chinch bugs and Giant Hairy Desert Scorpions before being seated.
~ Edward Abbey
Campers: Nature's way of feeding mosquitoes.
~ Anonymous
When using a public campground, a tuba placed on your picnic table will keep the campsites on either side vacant.
~ Anonymous
I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
~ Harrison Ford
I'm a camper. I love being out in the wilderness.
~ Chad Michael Murray
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.
~ Ellen Hopkins
As long as I can remember, I had a strong interest in fishing, and my parents, even though they had never fished or camped, took us on canoe camping trips in the wilderness of Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, where I could fish to my heart's content.
~ Henry Paulson
you could beach your ship wherever you could find a sandy shore, put up your tent
~ Roderick Beaton
Helen and I made it a point to take the whole family out and spend time traveling or camping together. Sometimes the kids thought of these trips as forced marches, but I think that time we spent together has had a lot to do with our close relationship as a family today. We have a lot of good memories of traveling all over the country, especially in this one fine old DeSoto station wagon.
~ Sam Walton